Though I’m not finished with it and therefore cannot attest to its excellence, I think by now we can all assume that every post from Lost Live Dead is to be read at least twice: first, voraciously, and then with care later.
This new one is about an obscure music biz sharpie named Brevetz I’d never heard of but, as always, it’s the singer not the song. Go there and read that.
(Fun fact: the old LA rock club “Thee Experience” was a half-mile from my apartment on Gardner Street.)
I read it yesterday, planning on rereading it tonight. ToTD, Corry, Voodonola, and archive.org keep the fires burning in a way Dead&Company just can’t quite pull off. Have i mentioned English is not my first language?
Of those four, I’m the best, though. Right? I mean: no offense to anyone, but I win.
Have any of the considered a restraining against me? I only have eyes for you fine sir……………yes your the best
I’m guessing the entrance mural to the club was long gone when you lived there?
I think it might have been a KFC when I was in residence. I did eat there on occasion.
Right around the corner, though, you could still enter a black guy’s mouth for a couple bucks.
Somebody call 911, I may have just spit my pancreas out my nose.
cool! here is a worm hole goofball DIY site about hollywood http://www.hollywoodhangover.com anecdotes like peter graves bird-doggin’ on the sunset strip & whatnot
Good link, Luther. Everyone has to be patient with this ancient site and read through the randomly organized pages (there are dozens), but it is quite fascinating.
I should add that (as a great philosopher once said), History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. If you keep reading the Hollywood Hangover site, eventually the protagonist moves to Champaign, IL in the early 70s.
Thus there is a lengthy, detailed account of the “ChamBana” scene of the early 70s, where REO Speedwagon were kings. Sweet, thoughtful, impossible to parody.
ToTD, thanks for the kind words as always. The way in which you trace the doings of Benjy of Precarious Lee as a running thread of history–if an imagined history–is actually very realistic. The late Marshall Brevetz is one of those true-to-life figures who played a very real part in the Grateful Dead’s history, even though he has since been written out of it.
The actual Brevetz story may in fact be pretty dark, involving drug deals and a desperate end, but history tends to be written by the victors, not the backmarkers, and I am more interested in the latter.